(Sorry if this is a dupe..) > As for format or schema, there are vCard, FOAF, and LDAP schema > defined from various sources. I am not sure if there is a dominate > standard. > > If we can get open source projects agree on a common set of schema, > that would be a great achievement. :-)
I'm not familiar enough with the various standards, but I imagine it would be best to use the one that is the most inclusive, as far as the number of defined possibilities go. Groups or tags are an example of something that would be nice to see standardized -- I don't know if it's still the same, but last time I exported from Evolution to Kmail or vice-versa, I lost all of the tags I'd associated my contacts with. Bear in mind that I'm unfamiliar with the capabilities of the current standards to address different types of information -- is it reasonable to create a different format that handles the data of all three? ..or is one of them capable enough to perform that task? Another thing to bear in mind is extensibility for the future -- is it a standard format that we're likely to be able to change if we run across a necessity later on? -b _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
